Match packet



R. S. PULLEN Dec. 6, 1938.

\ MATCH PACKET Filed Nov. 26, 1935 3 Sheets-Sheet 'l 6, Y R. s. PULLEN' 39,

MATCH PACKET Filed Nov. 26, 1935 3 Sheets-Sheet 2 Dec. 6, 1938. R, s PULLEN 2,139,036

MATCH PACKET Filed NOV. 26, 1935 3 Sheets-Sheet'3 Patented Dec. 6, 1938 U-NLTED STATES antic PATENT OF FIQE.

17 Claims.

My invention relates to packet matches of the 'pullf-and-light type, which find. their best embodiment in a paper match form, but which may be used. also with wooden stick matches.

. One of the purposes .of the. invention is to supply a packet having the matches fitting into corrugations in an insert within the packet.

A further'purpose is to provide a packet having corrugations and having the ribs of the corrugations' relatively flattened to bring the corrugati'ons into closely matching contact with the match sticks and heads, permissibly having the ribs of. the corrugations projecting laterally of the match sticks beyond the match sticks and/ or match heads as guards against undue pressure upon the match sticks.

A further purpose is to provide corrugated spacing material between the staggered matches or! adjoiningrows of match sticks in which the of the corrugations is enough greater than the thickness. of the sticks and/or heads of the matches so that; the ribs of the corrugations may space the adjoining packet material laterally trom the sticks and/or match heads, i. e., in the directions of the depths of the corrugations.

A further purpose is to provide a spacing stub or strip between the staggered matches of adjacent. rows: of match sticks which is reversely bent upon. itself, corrugated to: receive the matches: preierably is held in bent position by transversely offsetting parts ofv the strip at the bend.

A. further purpose is to pass the matches through. holes. in the case which are altered in shape by bending the packet walls at the holes to. give retardation tothe stick as the stick is withdrawn and further altering the shape of these holes in the bent condition of the packet wall bylaterally deforming the wall of the packet on one side. at least to slightly oval the openings at the same time rounding the surface of the packet. Wall adjoining the opening.

A further purpose is to provide a reentrant packet stub betweenpadjoining rows of relatively staggered matches having match openings at the points of reentrant bending and to enlarge one wall of the opening at least to lead into the enlargement of the opening by corrugating the reentrant portion of the packet, preferably after the matches have been inserted.

A further purpose is to use separate corrugated material for the staggered matches of two rows and to maintain the pitches of the corrugations.

A. further purposeis to provide a match packet made from a paper match strip in which the shank of the paper match strip is cut and separated at the rear' ends longitudinally of the matches to allow the individual sticks to be grasped by the user but in which the separate sticks are not wholly separated, leavinga slight uncut attachment between the sticks to be severed readily by the user as he tears off matches.

A further purpose is to provide the protection of attachment of the stick ends of paper matches in pull-and-li'ght packets which has hitherto been available in the ordinary book paper match packet' only.

A further purpose is to provide a slight tearing attachment near the stick ends between paper or wood strip matches of the pull-and-light type packet to reinforce the matches and stiffen the packet.

A further purpose is to provide a match packet preferably with a corrugated stub carrying scratcher material and with the'matches held in the spaces between corrugated spacing material and backing by which the corrugated material is held in place.

A further purpose is to retain matches of strip type by engaging the head ends of the match; sticks covering the heads and to leave the stub ends of the matches exposed with the matches attachedto the stub for detachment there.

A further purpose is to mount individual matches in the spaces between corrugations and a backing, for the corrugations and to cover the matches so mounted with a wrapcarrying ignition. material for pull-and-light match withdrawal.

My invention relates primarily to the packet. produced, the method being claimed in a divisional case. r

I have preferred to illustrate a few forms only in which the invention may appear, selecting the views from constructions which are practical, effective and commercially desirable, but particularly with a view to their clear illustration of the principles involved.

Figure l is a perspective view of a match packet containing two rows of paper matches, stag gored and having the ends of the packet protected' by a bale.

Figure 2 is a plan view of the blank forming the wrap of Figure 1.

Figure 3 is. aside elevation of the structure: of Figure 2.

Figure 4 is a side. elevation of the blank with the rows of' a paper match strip spread and in position for insertion on. one. side. and an insert on the opposite side of the wrap blank. Holding clamps for manipulation of the strip are shown here which are omitted in the other figures.

Figure 5 is a side elevation of the parts of Figure 4 in a second position in the process of forming the packet.

Figures 6 and 6a are side elevations of the same parts as are shown in Figures 4 and 5 in a third position and with forming dies in place with the corrugated inserts of Figures 11 and 12,

respectively.

Figure 7 is a fragmentary side elevation of the packet of Figure 6 with a bale about the parts, intended to close the ends of the packet against excessive flash from match ignition.

Figure 8 is a broken perspective of a bale seen in Figure 7.

Figure 9 is a side elevation of the parts of Figures 4-6 with the flaps turned up over the front and back of the packet.

Figure 10 is a side elevation of the structure of Figure 9 except that the wrap has been turned about to position.

Figures 11 and 12 are perspectives of inserted corrugated material. Figure 11 is in reverse position to give greater clearness.

Figure 11a is a section of Figure 11 taken upon the line Ila-l la thereof.

Figures 13 and 14 are cross sections of the packet of Figure 6 before and after pressing, respectively, taken in some such position as that of line l4-l4 and omitting the dies.

Figure 15 is a section corresponding to Figure 14 but showing a modified insert.

Figures 16, 17 are sections corresponding generally to that upon line l1-l1 of Figure 6 but taken before and after pressing respectively and Figure 17 including the bale.

Figure 18 is a fragmentary perspective of the corrugated insert and a match, after pressing showing one possible result of the pressing.

Figure 19 is a fragmentary perspective illustrating the spacer, after pressing and with two matches in place on one side of the spacer.

Figure 20 is a perspective view of a packet using the matches from two strips.

Figure 21 is a plan view of the blank used in Figure 20.

Figure 22 is a side elevation of the structure of Figure 21.

Figures 23 and 24 are side elevations of the wrap of Figure 21, with associated inserts, at different stages in the process of making the packet.

Figure 25 is a side elevation corresponding generally to Figure 9 but with the packet of Figure 20. It is true also of the double packet having the single packet characteristics of Figure Figure 26 is an end elevation of the packet of Figure 20, including the bale of Figure 20 which is omitted in Figure 23.

Figure 27 is a perspective of a modified form of corrugated insert with the corrugated strips shown in spaced relation to each other.

Figure 28 is a transverse section similar to Figure 5 but illustrating a modification in which a holder for wooden stick matches is shown for insertion of the matches through the openings in a wrap for formation of a packet of light-om withdrawal packet.

Figure 29 is a perspective view of a modified form of packet in Which the shanks of individual match sticks of strip material have not been severed from the match strip.

Figure 30 is a fragmentary perspective view of a packet partly folded using separated individual matches corresponding in part with the other packets but fitting the matches into the spaces inside the corrugated material of an insert as distinguished from outside the corrugations.

Figure 31 is a side elevation of a corrugated strip match-holding insert such as is used in Figure 30.

Figure 32 is an end elevation of the completed packet of which Figure 30 shows partial completion.

In the drawings similar numerals indicate like parts.

The present packet has many characteristics in common with the packet of my Patent No. 1,921,372, issued August 8, 1933, but differs from it in a number of particulars which will later appear.

Packet matches of the pull-and-light type depend for their commercial success upon various factors in addition to the actual capability of operating in that manner. It is not possible of course to control the ways in which the packets are held. Sometimes they are held by the ends, in which case the protection from holding pressure and the use of holding pressure to give added friction to the matches alike fail. However, where they are held by the fiat parts of the packets as intended, pressure by the thumb and fingers of the user upon the flat sides can be used to increase friction in withdrawal or the matches can be protected from such increase; and such conditions bear quite appreciably upon the success of the packet.

In the form shown in Figures 119 the blank is quite comparable with the blank of Figure 2 of said patent. The blank is formed of pulp board, straw board or the like and is scored, preferably double scored, at 36, 31, 38, 39, 40 and 4| for the purpose of providing an inner rear packet flap 42, scratch portions 43 and 44 together forming a re-entrant igniting spacer 45, a front flap 4%, an end flap 41, a rear flap 48 and a terminal protective projecting rear flap 49.

The sides of the wrap-are cut away as at 50, 5| at the ends of the spacer 45. The faces of the re-entrant portions 43 and 44 back of the scratch material may be painted with glue, at 52, 53 as by rollers 54, 55 before creasing the spacer, if desired, in order to hold the two porticns together, as an addition to or as alternative to holding them together by corrugating the spacer at the bend, hereinafter described.

In the blank 35 on opposite sides of the score lines 31 and desirably central with respect to the bends by which the re-entrant spacer 45 is formed, two rows of openings or holes 56, 51 are out, large enough to pass the heads of the matches when the sheet is fiat and preferably large enough also-to offer little or no retardation against the sides of the match sticks.

The retardation to withdrawal can be applied largely to the sticks at the holes 56, 51 or largely to the heads to require appropriate tension before the matches begin to move or largely to the sticks at intermediate points by seating the sticks between close walls or can be made up of any appropriate proportions of these resistances, with the purpose and result that the match is retarded in starting and, permissibly also during movement. This retardation requires a real pull for withdrawal and the match therefore acquires sufficient impetus to be withdrawn continuously at an igniting speed where it passes the scratch material 58 and 59'.

The corrugated inserts between the matches in the present case may be used to protect against pressure upon the heads of thematches in place and to permit pressure by the users against the packages in position so that the retarding action upon the heads of the matches will not become efiective until the matches have started out.

When the packet is to be a paper match book as distinguished from a wooden match book, paper or wood matches of the ordinary strip type may be used, comprising rows 60, 60' of staggered matches united at the rear ends by an unsevered rear stub 6| and in manufacture spread at some such angle as that shown in Figure 4 for registering the match heads H! in the holes 56 and ET of the blank 35.

The unsevered rear stub affords a handle by which the staggered matches of the two rows 60 and 60 may be manipulated. It does not matter whether the matches are passed through the blank or the blank is passed over the matches except that it is more convenient to shift the blank. Pushers 62, 63 shift the to cause the walls of the holes 55, 61 to pass over blank tothe right soas the heads of the matches.

The pusher 52 is recessed at 62' toallow the panels 43 and 44 to re-entrantly bend within the recess aboutthe scoring 3'! and over the wedgeshape projection 64, thereby forming the ignition spacer. However, at this stage the panel walls of the ignition spacer have not been flattened against each other and these walls are plane. ihe insert is next supplied, the parts assuming approximately the position seen in Figure 5. However, the clamps 66 by which the stub is held in Figure 4 are omitted in the remaining figures.

The panels 43 and 44 of the spacer 45 may or may not be glued along their inside faces, as seen in Figure l, according to whether it is desired to secure these panels tightly against each other or not. The corrugation of these plane faces, subsequently to be described, will hold them rather closely together. The corrugated insert 85 is placed in position just forward of the ignition spacer.

The insert may be wide enough inthe direction of the lengths of the matches to extend beyond the heads of the matches as intended with the insert of Figure 11 or may stop short of the heads of the matches as intended with the insert 51 in Figure 12.

The corrugated insert is shown in Figures 11 and 12- as made up of two separate corrugated strips $8, 68 fastened back toback and each comprising a corrugated facing on one side and a plane backing strip 59, at the back fastened to the facing at the corrugations and thus maintaining the corrugations in their initial and intended respective pitch positions. The back ng strip of Figure 11 preferably stops short of the heads of the matches, as at 69', so as to give additional room for the heads of the matches. The restraint against spreading is especially important here where the matches crowd the corrugations laterally.

These two strips 68, 68' are secured together with a spacing such that the crests I0, 10 and gutters i l, I l of the oppositely facing corrugated strips are staggered and matches placed in the respective gutters will likewise be staggered, those of one row with respect to those of the second row.

With the parts in some such position as shown in Figure 5 the matches are next pressed laterally between pressure heads 12' and T3 so that the alternately placed matches of the two rows will fit, those of one row between those of another, within the gutters of the respective corrugations andeach match will be pressed laterally as a die.

By the lateral impression of the matches upon the corrugated material as in Figures l3 and 14, several advantages are secured. Because the depths of the gutters between crests are initially greater than the, thicknesses of the match stems, the corrugations are relatively flattened adjacent the crests and squared at the bottoms of the gutters and the material thus forced down and out intothe spaces between the matches spreads out at both sides against the match sticks, reforming the gutters from their rounded permissibly curved contours to relatively squared corrugations which maybe made to fit with such snugness as may be sought against the side faces In designing the match packets any degree of side contact" or approach to full contact with the matches may be provided from closely pressing contact against the sides of the matches to merely greater restrictions of the grooves or gutters of the corrugations along which the match head must pass in withdrawal. Not only can the extent of distortion of the cross sections of the gutters and crests be determined to a nicety but the contour when pressed may be allowed to spring back somewhat when released from the pressure of the dies if the pressing be effected upon a. dry corrugated material (and dry ignition spacer) or any degree of maintenance of the shape when pressed may be secured by different degrees of steaming or other moistening of the corrugated material and/ or spacer at the t me of pressing, always within such moisture limits that the materials of the heads and scratch surfaces will not be injured.

In Figure 13' the matches are shown as resting initially within the corrugations with the crests as extending laterally beyond the match sticks to such an extent only that when pressed between I dies which engage both the sticks" and the crests the latter will be flattened down to the flats of the match sticks, increasing the friction against the Sides of the match sticks and forming new grooves for the sticks.

Thev sides 14, '15 of the grooves as formed may thus be made to give greater or less initial retardation to withdrawal of the matches by reason of friction. against the sides of the matches. with subsequent greater or less retardation of the larger heads to travel along the lengths of the grooves formed.

It will be evident that the shape of the grooves formed in. the lateral press ng operation will depend upon the shape of the match sticks and that the grooves will thus form rounded semi cylindrical seats for rounded sticks. as in the case of rounded: wooded matches, relatively squared seats or sockets for paper or squared wooden match sticks, etc".

When the lateral pressing of the matches of the several rows takes place it will ordinarily not be necessary to press the heads of the matches separately because the pressing of sticks adjacent to the heads causes some lateral pressing of the heads themselves and this sockets the heads slightly within the corrugated material. Where it is desired to form closer and more intimate conformation. of the socket formed to the head, the pressure heads or blocks 1 2", 13 can be extended as shown in Figure 6a to bring any desired of the match sticks.

amount of pressure to bear directly upon the heads and to attain any degree of socketing which may be sought.

In selecting the heights of crests and contours of the corrugations for the corrugated insert, an advantage is to be gained from the standpoint of avoidance of "holding of the matches by the user by having the crests of the corrugations in the completed packet laterally higher than the match heads, as seen at 16 in Figures 16 and 17, whether this height of corrugation be maintained at the heads only or throughout the lengths of the crests of corrugated material. The advantage from the higher crests arises from the fact that the user, if he holds the packet by pressure against its fiat sides during match withdrawal, will then not be holding against the heads of the matches since the holding pressure transmitted through the wrap and bale will be taken upon the crests of the corrugations at the head ends and the heads will thus be relieved from pressure. Similarly the amount of fullness provided by the corrugations along the stick portions of the matches, pe"- mitting the material of the crests and grooves to be crowded laterally against the match sticks, may be selected so as to leave a little fullness after the pressing as seen at T! in Figure 15, where it is desired to avoid the pressure from the hold of the user clamping the sticks of the matches and excessively restricting withdrawal of the heads of the matches.

If the crests of the corrugations are left high as seen in Figures 15, 16, 17 after the pressing operation the retardation to withdrawal of the match will be nearly uniform because nearly independentof the holding by the user.

Several variations are shown in the corrugated material, depending upon whether or not the corrugation gutters are to be deeper or less deep then the lateral extension of the heads, and upon the contour and particularly the height of crest of the corrugations themselves. In Figure 27 also a special corrugated board is shown which is made by fastening a fiat or plane sheet to the corrugation crests of adjacent corrugated strips, instead of fastening together two somewhat thicker corrugated strips each complete with its own plane backing or support.

Preferably the corrugated insert material will not carry any scratching or igniting composition though it will evidently be: possible to load any part of the length of the several corrugation gutters with such material if desired. In the preferred form the scratcher material is placed wholly upon the re-entrant ignition spacer 45 where it will be reached by the moving head of the match after the match has acquired a considerable speed of withdrawal and just before the match emerges from the packet.

As will be seen in Figure 6, the ignition spacer 45, initially plane and formed of a re-entrant fold, lies within the pressure heads 72, 13. These heads press the match sticks: alternating on opposite sides of the spacer, laterally into the spacer so as to corrugate the spacer material as seen in Figure 19. This operation is preferably performed before the flap 42 is turned up to position, leaving the flap free from corrugation.

The corrugation of the spacer, made by compressing the matches upon the spacer has many advantages. It provides gutters within the spacer which may be made more or less to correspond with the gutters of the insert 65 as they exist after pressing the matches upon the corrugated insert, giving smooth withdrawal. The gutters, on the other hand, may be made to fit the contours of the heads of the matches so as to engage the matches for igniting purposes concurrently upon as large a surface of one side of each head as possible. The corrugations in the spacer lead to the openings or holes 56, 51, curving the inner walls about these holes and permitting the use of smaller holes or permitting the edge of the bale to come up into the outer edges of these holes as would not otherwise be feasible.

The corrugation tends to stiffen the previously plane I walls of. the spacer, which stiffening is intensified by the fact that the outer oppositely facing spacer walls are covered with scratcher or ignition material. The corrugation also stiifens the reverse bend against opening (needed when glue is notused to hold the parts together). It does this by waving the planes of the bend so as to make the laterally waved bend comparable to a piano hinge in which the pintel is offset at corresponding intervals, with a resultant interference with opening movement of the hinge. The corrugation, whether it conforms to the contour of the adjoining corrugated insert material or not, reduces if it does not eliminate the abruptness of passage of the heads from the corrugated material to the spacer during withdrawal movement of the matches.

The contouring and nesting of the match heads into the insert is facilitated greatly by shortening the backing material as seen in Figure 11 where one match only is shown with its head compressing the corrugated material 68 beyond the backing strip 69. In Figure 12 both the corrugated material and the backing strip portions of the insert stop short of the match head position.

The packet is completed by folding the flaps successively from their positions in Figure 7 to those in Figures 9 and 10 with or without bale insertion. Where the bale is not used it is desirable to hold the ends-of the packet together at the same time that the flaps are held in place. In the patent above this is done by staples. Where the bale is used this is unnecessary and the packet can be sealed by gluing the inner rear flap 42 to the outer rear flap 48, the bale to the inside of the inner flap 42 or to the inside of the flap 46. This gluing of the bale is ordinarily not necessary as the bale will hold its position without gluing.

The uncut match stub Bl, which has afforded a' convenient holding edge for manipulating the matches in the first place and for holding the packet as the packet has advanced toward completion, continues to be used for this purpose up to the point where the flaps are bent from the position of Figure 9 to the position of Figure 10 to close the end flap 4'! across the ends of the matches, to bring the rear flap 48 up to engagement with the inner rear flap 42 and to place the upper rear flap in protective position in back of the adjoining match sticks. It is then cut off.

The method and apparatus shown in Figures 1 to 19 may conveniently be used in the formation of a double packet in which a second flap 42, which may correspond in all particulars with inner flap 42, is secured to the inner flap 42, with adjoining sections 43', 44 and 46 in reverse order from the order seen in Figure 21, connected to the section 42'. Though the additional part of the packet can be constructed from a separate flap 42', glued to the blank 42 and with contiguous blanks 43, 44 and 46 it is much more desirable to use an additional with or without gluing of' blank integral with the first as seen in Figures 21 and 22. The additional blank is perforated at 56",51" in general correspondence with the perforation of the blank in Figure 2. The openings 51" are staggered with respect to the openings '56.

it will 'be seen that the additional thickness of .the packet requires for this form a wider flap #1 to form the end of the thicker packet and that the'bale for the wider packet must be wider than the -bale .seen in Figure 8. In manufacture, as indicated 'in Figures 28-27, the flaps 43, M, are covered with scratcher material on one side and glued, if desired, on the other and are collapsed 'reentrantly as in the case of flaps 43 and M. Also inserts are provided for the spacers 45 and -45' thus formed, and the parts are pressed by presser heads 12 and "[3 as in the case of spacers 45. At any suitable stage in the manufac'turethefiaps 42, 42 are collapsed, re-entrantl-y, as seen in Figure 24 and the packet is completed generally as in the packet of Figures 1-19.

'With the duplex packet of Figures 20-27 some slight changes are made in the method of feeding the match rows in for the packet and closing the packet in that the second pair of rows 60 60 of matches cannot merely be passed through the apertures 56", 51' with collapse formation of the *re-entrant spacer but during the collapse of the two pairs of sides 43, M and 43', 4 respeetiveiy of the two spacers formed, the holding mechanism must 'move relatively, one with respect to the other, since the two uncut stubs 61, 6-1 must move nearer with respect to each other as the length of the blank is :taken up by the collapse of the flaps 4'3, 44, 43', M to form the two spacers. Furthermore, when the .two

naps 42, "42" are collapsed similarly to the .col-

lapse of :the flaps .43, 44 .and :43, M .to form :a connecting web spacing the match sticks of one match :strip from't-he match sticks .of the next, there .a further shortening of the :blank.

From the description above it will be evident that the bale 1.8 may :be used or omitted as desired according to whether exposure .of the matches at the ends would otherwise be objectionable or can be disregarded. It is the intention .to protect against the flare due to accidental ignition of a number of match heads 19 in case .a match be not withdrawn promptly after ignition; and when the danger from this is reduced .by whatever other means, the use of the bale becomes unnecessary.

In Figure 28 rows 80, .81 of individual stick matches are indicated, with holders 82, .83, pivoted at -84, :by which holders the matches are individually supported in the same positions as from the strip in Figure .4. The holders are spring-controlled .by a spring 85 so as to tend to separate and are controlled against the action of the spring by any suitable cams 86, 8! operative either by separate movements of the cams or by movement by the cams by reason of the lateral position of the holders. By this is meant that the progress of the elements of the packet in a direction perpendicular to the paper in Figure .28 may cause the rows of holders with their matches 'to engage either more restricted or less restricted portions of the cams. The rows of matches of Figure '28 are capable therefore of being handled in all particularsthe same as those show in the previous figures, with the exception "that when the operations are completed the holders and matches are relatively separated to de tach instead of separation of a stub as in the other figures.

In Figure 29 the stub 45' has been slitted longitudinally of the match sticks so as to leave a small detachment section only at 88 by which the matches are held together.

Not only are the sticks nearly severed to correspond with the stick portions in the-lower part of the figure, but the severed ends 89 of the sticks are spaced alternately in two rows so as to-permit of easy access by the user. This packet of Figure 29 is intended to secure the stiiiening eiiect by sufficient attachment for that purpose, while leaving little for subsequent detachment to permit the matches readily to be separated one at a time for use. The packet in other respects may be identical with Figure 1 or may have the individual characteristics of any pulland-light strip packet.

in Figure 30 a wrap shown .of the general character of that in Figure 2. having an inner rear flap 42 and a V re-entrantly-collapsed spacer '45 of the general character of that appearing in Figures 5-10. An adjoining front flap 46 is also shown. So far as these parts are concerned the construction .could be identical with that of .the first ten figures. It should be noted that the spacer 45 may be initially plane and in that event is preferably subsequently corrugated by lateral pressureupon the match sticks at this point, using the match sticks as dies. alternately to press the spacer in opposite directions. There are features in this packet which are independent of the question of corrugation of the spacer 45, whether this corrugation .be done at all, or be done initially or after insertion of the matches.

The primal difierences .between the packet of Figure 30 and that .of the previous figures, lie in the facts that in the packet of Figure 30 the matches .are placed in the gutters 90 between the corrugated facings 91 and the backing material 92, that is, instead of being located within the outer gutters .93 .as in the other forms the matches 60 .and 16.0 are placed within the gutters 90 which form the-insides of the .crests 94,. This makes the inserts -95 self contained to the extent that the corrugated material itself supports the matches and the matches can be protected, carried and manipulated by the "corrugated facings and the backing forming the insert. A continued strip of composite corrugated material containing the matches intended .for .a series of match packets is shown in Figure 31 and a completed packet containing matches so located within the composite corrugated material is shown in Figure 32.

As a result the composite {corrugated insert can :be supplied to the match packets with or with-:

out the matches .shown in Figure 31, giving alternative methods of construction of the packet. In either event the matches are inserted stick first from the end of the composite corrugated material farthest from the insert, i. e., downwardly in the construction of Figure .31. This can be done in the composite corrugated material before it is applied within the packet, .or the insert canbe supplied to the :packet and the matches can subsequently be inserted through the spaces of the composite material andthrough .the openings 56, 5-1. This may be :done after the corrugation of the spacer 45 '(if it be preliminarily corrugated) or prior to the corrugation of this spacer 45 with subsequent corrugation of the spacer by lateral pressure upon the sticks-of the matches. In'either event there is no necessity for using presser heads against the composite corrugated material :but against the exposed match sticks only.

With the form of Figure 30 it is permissible but not essential that the backing of the corrugated strips shall stop short of the heads of the matches, as in Figure 11, inorder to provide additional room for the match heads and use the edge of the backing strip as special retardation to be overcome by the heads before the matches can start on their passages along the enclosed grooves of the corrugations.

This form of packet is capable of being made into a double packet, by the use of the same type of blank as seen in Figure 21 with the difference however from the packet shown in Figure 32 that no bale need be used, such as is seen in Figure 20.

In view of the invention and disclosure, variations and modifications to meet individual whim or particular need will doubtless become evident to others skilled in the art, to obtain all or part of the benefits of my invention without copying the structure shown, and I, therefore, claim all such in so far as they fall within, the reasonable spirit and scope of my invention.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

l. A match packet comprising a cover having two rows of match openings, bent along lines through the openings and between them to form a re-entrant spacer, ignition material on the outside faces of the spacer, two rows of matches, said matches passing through the openings, and corrugated material beyond the spacer toward the match heads, between the matches and having the matches laterally impressed into the corrugated material, whereby closeness of engagement of the corrugated material with the matches affords retardation to initial match movement.

2. In a match packet, a plurality of individually separate matches arranged in two rows side by side, staggered one row with respect to the other and with all their heads pointing in the same direction, a sheet of corrugated material between the matches of adjoining rows, the matches of the respective rows fitting within gutters of opposite faces of the sheet and the corrugations being high enough to prevent lateral pressure upon the matches, a wrap having two rows of holes through which the matches extend near their stick ends, the wrap being folded back upon itself between the holes to form a spacer between the rows and along and laterally beyond the sheet, ignition material on the spacer, the said wrap being folded additionally along each row of holes outside and over the matches towards the heads thereof, outer folded portions of the wrap forming packet walls, and means for securing the walls of the packet together.

3. In a match packet, a plurality of individually separate matches arranged in two rows side by side, staggered one row with respect to the other and with all their heads pointing in the same direction, a sheet of corrugated material between the matches of adjoining rows, the matches of the respective rows located within gutters of opposite faces of the sheet and the corrugations being high enough to prevent lateral pressure upon the match heads, a wrap having two rows of holes through which the matches extend near their stick ends, the wrap being folded back upon itself between the holes to form a spacer between the rows and along and laterally beyond the sheet, ignition material on the spacer, the said Wrap being folded additionally along each row of holes outside and down over the matches, outer folded portions of the wrap forming packet walls, and

means for securing the walls of the packet together.

4. In a match packet, a plurality of individually separate matches arranged in two rows side by side with all their heads pointing in the same direction and staggered, those in one row with respect to those in the next, a strip of corrugated material between the sticks of adjoining rows, the matches of the adjoining rows having their sticks located within gutters of opposite faces of the strip, a wrap having a plurality of holes arranged in rows side by side through which the matches extend near their stick ends, the wrap being bent through the holes and folded back upon itself to form a spacer between the rows, and the said spacer corrugated to provide grooves for passage of the match heads, striking material on the spacer, the said wrap being additionally folded to form packet outer walls and means for securing the walls of the packet together.

5. In a pull-and-light match packet, a plurality of individually separate matches arranged in two rows side by side with all their heads pointing in the same direction and staggered, those in one row with respect to those in the next, sheets of corrugated material with backing therefor between the sticks of adjoining rows, the sticks of the adjoining rows being located within the corrugation gutters of the respective sheets, a wrap having a plurality of holes arranged in rows side by side through which the matches extend near their stick ends, the wrap being bent through the holes of each row down upon the matches and intermediate the rows folded back upon itself to form a spacer in cooperation with and laterally beyond the sheets, the said spacer corrugated to provide grooves for passage of the match heads, striking material on the spacer, the said wrap being additionally folded to form packet outer walls, and means for securing. the walls ofthe packet together.

6. In a match packet, a plurality of matches arranged in two rows side by side with all their heads pointing in the same direction and stag- I gered, those in one row'with respect to those in the next, a strip of corrugated material between the sticks of adjoining rows providing gutters into which the matches fit conforming closely to the shapes of the sticks, a wrap having a plurality of holes arranged in rows side by side through which the matches extend near their stick ends, the wrap being bent through the holes and folded back upon itself to form a spacer corrugated to provide grooves for passage of the match heads,

striking material on the spacer, the said wrap being additionally folded to form packet outer walls, and means for securing the walls of the packet together;

7. In a pull-and-light match packet, a plurality in the next, the matches'being separated except for a slight attachment near their stick ends, a

strip of corrugated material between the sticks of adjoining rows, the said strip having gutters into which the matches fit, a wrap having twotransverse rows of holes through which the matches extend near their stick ends, the wrap being bent along each row of holes through the holes down upon the matches and folded back upon itself to form a spacer between the rows of matches-and corrugated to provide grooves for passage of the match heads, striking material on the spacer, the

wrap being additionally folded to form packet walls, and means for securing the walls of the packet together.

8. In a pull-and-light match packet, a plurality of matches arranged in two rows side by side with all their heads pointing in the same direction and staggered, those in one row with respect to those in the next, the matches being separated except for a slight attachment near their stick ends and divergent from the points of attachment to the ends, a strip of corrugated material between the sticks of adjoining rows, the strip having gutters into which the matches fit, a wrap having two transverse rows of holes arranged side by side through which holes the matches extend near their stick ends, the wrap being bent along each row of holes through the holes down upon the sticks and folded back upon itself to form a spacer between the rows of matches and corrugated to provide grooves for passage of the match heads, striking material on the spacer, the wrap being additionally folded to form packet outer walls, and means for securing the walls of the packet together.

9. In a match packet, a wrap having a reentrantly formed spacer coated with ignition material on its outside and apertured at the bases of the re-entrant formation, an insert comprising spaced corrugated sheets united to plane material located between the corrugations, the plane material being omitted opposite the heads of the matches and rows of matches staggered and passing through the apertures and having their heads rested upon the outsides of the corrugated sheets opposite the point at which the intermediate plane material is omitted.

10. A double packet of pull-and-light matches comprising two parts each including a pair of rows of matches, staggered row by row, separated adjacent ,the stick ends by a re-entrant spacer integral with the wrap and terminating in an inner rear flap, the inner rear fiap of each part being connected to the inner rear flap of the other and thereby with the re-entrant spacer of the other part, and a (30111111011 wrap including the said flaps and spacers and additionally front end and rear walls completing the packet.

11. A double packet for two pairs of rows of matches comprising a wrap enclosing the matches and having two re-entrant spacers formed from the wrap, each carrying ignition material and connected between the spacers by re-entrant wrap material, in combination with two pairs of rows of matches, each pair of rows being separated by one spacer and the stick ends of the matches passing through the wrap.

12. A double packet comprising a wrap having re-entrant ignition inserts apertured at the bases of the re-entrant portion of each insert and reentrantly bent between the inserts to separate groups of matches one from the other, four rows of matches, one on each side of each spacer, the matches on each side of each spacer being staggered with respect to matches on the other side of the spacer and passing the apertures, and a corrugated insert edgewise along each spacer, lying between the matches of its four rows of matches, the wrap being folded about the plurality of pairs of rows of matches to form a packet enclosing the matches, the inserts and the spacers.

13. A match packet comprising a plurality of strips of corrugated material and backing material therefor, forming pockets between the swellings of the corrugated material and the backing, matches within the pockets forming two rows, and a wrap surrounding the corrugated material and matches having ignition material upon a re-entrant portion of the wrap in the line of ignition travel of the stick on removal from the packet, and allowing the sticks of the matches to project through the material of the wrap.

14. A match packet comprising a plurality of strips of corrugated material and backing material therefor, forming pockets between the swellings of the corrugated material and the backing, matches within the pockets forming two rows, the matches of one row staggered with respect to the matches of the other row and a wrap surrounding the corrugated material and matches having ignition material upon a re-entrant portion of the wrap in the line of ignition travel of the stick on removal from the packet, and allow ing the sticks of the matches to project through the material of the wrap.

15. In a match packet, a corrugated insert comprising intervening backing material, corrugated material on both sides thereof forming pockets between the walls of the corrugations and the backing material, matches within the pockets in rows on opposite sides of the backing material, packet walls about the insert forming a reentrant spacer grooved to provide large contact with the match heads, carrying ignition material along which the heads of the matches pass in withdrawal.

16. A double match packet comprising a wrap for two double rows of staggered matches, the said wrap having three re-entrant bends, the intermediate bend re-entrantly spacing one double row from the other near the stick ends of the matches and the outer bends re-entrantly spacing the relatively staggered matches of the respectively different double rows, separate corrugated spacing material for each row of matches within which the matches are laterally seated so as to engage the corrugations against the edges of the match stick throughout a portion of the length of the stick within the packet, the said spacing material being located beyond the said outer bends, and scratcher material upon the reentrant outer bends of the wrap engaged by the matches as they are withdrawn.

17. In a match packet, two rows of matches staggered, the matches of one row with respect to the matches of the other, corrugated spacing material between the matches, a wrap having a corrugated re-entrant bend intermediate the rows so that the wrap corrugation spaces the sticks of the matches and scratcher material on the wrap corrugations whereby as the matches are withdrawn stick end first the heads of the matches engage the scratcher material throughout nearly half of the surface of the match heads, the curves of the corrugations providing for close fitting of the match heads against the scratcher material.

RODNEY SOUTHWICK PULLEN. 

